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BY     THF 


BARONESS  PAULINE  VON  HUGEL 


Notre  Dame,  Ind.: 
THE    AVE    MARIA 

LuRETTO    PRESS 


Copyright,   1902, 
By  D.  E.  HUDSON,  C.  S.  C. 


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In  Memory 
of 

PRINCE   DEMETRIUS   GALLITZIN 

of 

HIS  NOBLE  MOTHER, 

and  of  the 

BARONESS  PAULINE   VON  HUGEL. 

As  a   Tribute 

to 

MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES  M.  SCHWAB, 

ofLoretto,  Pa., 

who    have    erected    in    that    storied    village   u 

beautiful   and   fitting  monument    to 

its  Founder  and  first  Pastor; 

To 

MR.  JOHN  A.  SCHWAB, 

who  with  grateful  veneration  superintended  the 

construction  of  this  Memorial  Church; 

and  to  the 

REV.  FERDINAND  KITTELL, 

who  has  done  so  much  to  revive  the  memory  ol 

The    Pioneer   Priest    of  the  Alleghenies, 

This    Biography 

is    republished   from    the    pages    of 

The  Ave  Maria. 


"In  this  country,  a  traditional  antipathy  or 
bigoted  repugnance  to  the  Catholic  Church  pre- 
vails in  an  unjustifiable  extreme.  Whatever  is 
repulsive  in  the  Catholic  dogmas  or  rule  is 
fastened  on  with  unwarrantable  acrimony  and 
exclusiveness.  The  interests  alike  of  justice  and 
of  good -feeling  demand  that  the  attention  of 
Protestants  shall,  at  least  occasionally,  be  given 
to  the  best  ingredients  and  workings  of  the 
Catholic  system.  In  the  present  work,  we  have 
the  forensic  doctrine  and  authority  of  Catho- 
licity in  the  background,  its  purest  inner  aims 
and  life  in  the  foreground.  We  here  have  a 
beautiful  specimen  of  the  style  of  character  and 
experience  which  the  most  imposing  organic 
Symbol  of  Christendom  tends  to  produce,  and 
has,  in  all  the  ages  of  its  mighty  reign,  largely 
produced.  If  every  bigoted  disliker  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  within  the  English-speaking 
race  could  read  this  book,  and,  as  a  consequence, 
have  his  prejudices  lessened,  his  sympathies  en- 
larged, the  result,  so  far  from  being  deprecated, 
should  be  warmly  welcomed.  This  is  written 
by  one  who,  while  enthusiastically  admiring  the 
spiritual  wealth  of  the  Catholic  Church,  the 
ineffable  tenderness  and  beauty  of  its  moral 
and  religious  ministrations,  is,  as  to  its  dog- 
matic fabric  and  secular  sway,  even  more  than 
a  Protestant  of  the  Protestants." — Rev.  William 
Rounseville  Alger,  "  Madame  Swetchine's  Life 
and  Letters"  (Introduction). 


CONTENTS 


CHAPTER  PAGE 

I. — Germany        ...        -  5 

II. — America     -                 -        -  50 

III.— The  Founding  of  Loretto   -  72 

IV—  Last  Days          ...  96 


A    ROYAL     SON    AND 
MOTHER. 


I. —  Germany. 

TT  is  rather  strange  that  no 
times  should  have  differed 
from  one  another  more  widely 
than  the  eighteenth  and  nine- 
teenth centuries.  We  feel  more  in 
sympathy  with,  say  the  fourth 
or  fifth  century,  that  produced 
a  Jerome,  an  Augustine,  and  a 
John  Chrysostom  —  an  age  of 
decadence,  no  doubt;  and  yet 
one  of  intense  intellectual  ac- 
tivity, of  deep  heart  -  searching, 


5 


6  A  ROYAL  SON 

of  vehement  thirst  after  truth, — 
than  with  those  days  so  com- 
paratively close  to  our  own, 
when  all  seemed  so  cold,  so 
colorless,  so  shallow;  when  the 
very  first  need  of  man  —  his  need 
of  God  —  was  as  though  it  had 
died  away. 

Then  came  the  French  Revo- 
lution, succeeded  by  the  terrible 
Napoleonic  days,  when  apathy 
and  indolence  had  perforce  to 
be  shaken  off,  and  men  were 
roused  to  the  consciousness 
that  there  was  still  such  a 
thing  as  patriotism  in  the 
world;  that  noble  enthusiasms 
needed  but  the  strong  winds 
of  adversity  to  fan  them  into 
flame.  And  yet  how  deep-seated 


AND  MOTHER.  7 

were  the  nervelessness  and 
indolence  of  the  children  of  an 
effete  civilization !  Had  the  Cor- 
sican  tyrant  worn  his  laurels 
with  one  degree  less  of  insolence, 
had  his  despotism  been  a  little 
less  brutal,  German  princes  and 
Russian  statesmen  and  Italian 
diplomatists  might  have  gone 
on  obligingly  handing  him  over 
crown  after  crown. 

An  age  barren  in  patriots  is 
also  an  age  barren  in  saints. 
The  man  who  can  not  be  fired 
to  a  lofty  enthusiasm,  to  heroic 
self-sacrifice  for  his  country,  is 
not  made  of  the  same  stuff  as 
those  blessedly  violent  ones  who 
carry  the  kingdom  of  heaven  by 
storm.    Hence  we  see  a  lament- 


8  A  ROYAL  SON 

able  dead  level  in  the  religious 
life  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
The  gentle  Anna  Emmerich  was 
almost  persecuted  by  good  men 
for  having  the  stigmata;  any- 
thing abnormal,  anything  like 
direct  interference  on  the  part 
of  Heaven  with  the  ordinary 
jog-trot  of  human  existence, 
aroused  suspicion,  even  resent- 
ment. There  was  indeed  faith, 
beautiful  and  deep  -  rooted, 
among  the  Catholic  poor;  but 
the  wise  of  this  world  had  not 
only  lost  faith,  but  lost  all 
respect  for  faith;  it  was  looked 
upon  as  something  obselete,  use- 
less, no  longer  capable  of  exer- 
cising any  power  over  the  lives 
of  men.     Bound,   as  they  said, 


AND  MOTHER.  9 

to  die  out  among  the  lower 
orders  of  society,  the  upper 
classes  had  already  flung  it 
aside,  as  soon  as  the  fashionable 
French  philosophy  had  won  the 
day. 

It  was  at  this  period  of  spirit- 
ual darkness,  as  yet  showing  no 
signs  of  the  grand  revival  to 
come,  that  Amalie  von  Schmet- 
tau  was  born  in  Berlin,  in 
the  year  1748.  Field  -  Marshal 
Count  von  Schmettau,  her 
father,  was  a  Protestant;  but, 
as  her  mother  was  a  nominal 
Catholic,  Amalie  was  to  be 
brought  up  in  the  old  faith. 
She  was  sent  at  a  very  early 
age  to  a  convent  school  in  Bres- 
lau,  from    whence    at    fourteen 


10  A  ROYAL  SON 

she  returned  good  and  innocent 
but  with  a  very  imperfect  edu- 
cation. "I  felt,"  she  wrote  in 
later  years,  "as  though  I  had 
dropped  from  the  skies,  to  find 
myself  abruptly  removed  from 
the  atmosphere  of  an  enclosed 
convent  to  that  of  my  mother's 
house,  one  of  those  most  fre- 
quented by  the  gay  world  of 
Berlin." 

Frederick  the  Great  had  re- 
ceived Voltaire  with  open  arms 
at  his  court,  and  the  French 
infidel  had  taught  fashionable 
German  society  to  sneer  in  the 
most  approved  style  at  all 
things  great  and  hoty.  The 
grand  old  language  of  their 
fathers  was  no  longer  tolerated  ; 


AND  MOTHER.  11 

in  polished  circles  only  French 
was  to  be  spoken  and  written; 
and  with  the  old  language  the 
old  beliefs  were  to  go  too ;  and, 
if  possible,  that  which  has  been 
well  called  the  glory  of  the 
Teutonic  race — its  hunger  and 
thirst  after  God. 

Amalie  von  Schtnettau,  whose 
rare  abilities  fitted  her  to  shine 
so  brilliantly  in  her  mother's 
salon  was  now  sent  to  an  edu- 
cational establishment  in  Berlin, 
conducted  by  an  avowed  French 
atheist.  The  girl  remained  there 
about  eighteen  months,  to  re- 
turn home  once  more,  still  inno- 
cent and  in  one  sense  unspoiled, 
but  with  no  faith  whatever  left. 
Her    beauty,   her  great  talents, 


12  A  ROYAL  SON 

her  musical  accomplishments, 
and  a  certain  innate  refinement 
and  distinction,  quickly  made 
her  a  great  favorite  at  court. 

In  1768  she  went  to  Aix-la- 
Chapelle  as  lady  in  waiting  to 
one  of  the  German  princesses. 
Here  she  met  Prince  Gallitzin, 
the  Russian  Ambassador  to 
France.  He  was  a  man  con- 
siderably older  than  the  inter- 
esting young  girl,  but  perhaps 
all  the  quicker  to  discern  and 
appreciate  her  superior  quali- 
ties. After  a  short  acquaintance 
he  made  her  an  offer  of  mar- 
riage, that  was  accepted  both 
by  Amalie  herself  and  her  rela- 
tives, though  for  very  different 
reasons.      It     was     a     brilliant 


AND  MOTHER.  13 

marriage ;  this  recommended  the 
Prince  to  her  family.  With 
Amalie  this  side  of  the  question 
had  not  the  least  weight.  In 
after  years  she  wrote  to  an 
intimate  friend:  "My  heart  did 
not  feel  the  need  of  what  is 
generally  called  love.  But  an 
affection  that  would  lead  one  to 
desire  and  seek  the  perfection  of 
the  person  one  cared  for — this 
I  felt  myself  strongly  capable 
of;  it  was  an  idea  that  had 
taken  deep  root  within  me  and 
had  become  necessary  to  my 
happiness.  Such  an  ideal  was 
quite  independent  of  externals. 
I  believed  the  Prince  could  be 
everything  to  me,  if  he  but 
shared  these  views." 


14  A  ROYAL  SON 

Alas!      so    far    from    sharing 
them,  he  was  not  even  capable 
of    comprehending     them.      He 
proved  himself  in  many  ways  a 
kind  husband    and  father;    but 
he    was    a    disciple  of  the  new 
school,   which    owned    Voltaire, 
Diderot,     D'Alembert     and     the 
other     Encyclopedists     for     its 
leaders ;   and  in  their  philosophy 
poor  Amalie's  idealism  had  no 
place.     Indeed,   proof  does    not 
seem  wanting  that  the  evil  tree 
—  French    philosophy  —  brought 
forth    evil    fruit    in    the    moral 
conduct    of    Amalie's    husband, 
which  explains  the    long    years 
of  their    separation.     But    over 
this    the    high-souled    wife    has 
thrown  a  veil,  which  it  would 


AND  MOTHER.  15 

be  useless  and  ungenerous  now 
to  draw  aside.  At  the  time  of 
their  marriage  the  young  wife 
was  almost  as  little  of  a  Chris- 
tian as  her  elderly  husband; 
but  while  she  was  groping 
toward  the  light  in  a  darkness 
that  oppressed  her,  he  was 
content  with  his  own  shallow 
views  of  life. 

Shortly  after  their  marriage 
Prince  Gallitzin  took  his  beau- 
tiful bride  to  St.  Petersburg. 
She  was  presented  to  the  famous 
Empress  Catherine,  who  soon 
after  appointed  Prince  Gallitzin 
Minister  to  the  Hague.  In 
Berlin,  on  their  way  to  Holland, 
Marie  Anna  (Mimi),  their  only 
daughter  was  born ;  and  a  year 


16  A  ROYAL  SON 

later,  in  December,  1770,  at 
the  Hague,  their  only  son, 
Demetrius. 

Amalie's  life  was  now  seem- 
ingly a  brilliant  one.  Rich, 
young  and  beautiful,  highly 
gifted,  blessed  with  two  dearly 
loved  children,  she  was  not 
happy.  "In  vain,"  she  writes, 
"did  I  throw  myself  into  the 
distractions  and  amusements 
of  the  great  world.  I  brought 
back  after  these  entertainments, 
visits,  dances,  theatricals,  and 
other  frivolities,  only  an  in- 
creased, fruitless  longing  after 
something  higher,  something 
better,  which  I  could  speak  of 
to  no  one.  It  was  seldom  that 
I  did  not  cry    myself  to  sleep. 


AND  MOTHER.  17 

I  felt  like  one  of  those  actors 
who  have  to  amuse  others  on 
the  stage  while  in  secret  they 
are  shedding  bitter  tears." 

She  felt  a  great  longing  to 
lead  a  quiet,  retired  life,  devoted 
to  study  and  the  education  of 
her  children.  But  the  obstacles 
in  the  way  of  such  a  plan  seemed 
insurmountable.  And  now  we 
can  but  admire  how  God  Him- 
self leads  onward  the  soul  that 
is  unconsciously  striving  after 
Him. 

Diderot,  one  of  the  French 
atheistic  philosophers,  was  for 
a  time  living  at  the  embassy  as 
Prince  Gallitzin's  guest.  Amalie 
opened  her  heart  to  him,  and 
he    approved    of    her    wish    to 


18  A  ROYAL  SON 

devote  herself  to  "philosophy," 
and  to  give  up  the  world  and 
its  frivolities.  He  undertook  to 
obtain  her  husband's  consent, 
which  he  did ;  and  in  future, 
whilst  keeping  on  cordial  terms, 
corresponding  regularly,  and 
meeting  occasionally,  the  Prince 
and  his  wife  pursued  their  very 
different  ways  apart. 

Amalie  never  did  things  by 
halves.  She  took  care  quickly 
to  burn  her  ships  behind  her. 
She  cut  herself  off  from  all 
society,  save  that  of  a  chosen 
set  of  intimate  friends  of  like 
mind  with  herself.  Every  luxury 
of  dress,  which  then  was  at 
its  height,  was  rigorously  re- 
nounced.     Her    beautiful     dark 


AND  MOTHER.  19 

hair,  in  which  splendid,  costly- 
pearls  had  been  wont  to  gleam, 
and  which  had  been  particularly- 
admired,  was  shaven  oft",  and  a 
black  flat  wig  worn  instead. 
The  gay  embassy  was  aban- 
doned for  a  plain  little  country- 
house  situated  between  the 
Hague  and  Schevelingen ;  and, 
as  a  warning  to  visitors,  over 
the  door  hung  a  sign-board  with 
the  strange  device,  Nithuys  — 
"Not  at  home." 

Amalie  was  now  exceedingly 
happy.  "Soon  I  felt  such  com- 
fort in  this  new  life,  in  constant 
intercourse  with  my  children,  in 
gradual  advance  in  knowledge, 
and  above  all  in  the  peace  of 
conscience    with    which  I  every 


20  A  ROYAL  SON 

night  retired  to  rest,  that  still 
higher  thoughts  found  room  in 
my  mind.  God  and  my  own 
soul  came  to  be  the  usual  sub- 
jects of  my  reflections  and  in- 
vestigations." 

That  Amalie  Gallitzin's  young 
children  received  a  very  strange 
education  her  most  ardent  ad- 
mirers would  not  seek  to  deny. 
It  must  be  remembered  she  was 
really  educating  herself—  trying 
first  one  system  and  then 
another,  anxious  to  put  what 
she  read  into  practice,  and 
making  many  an  experiment 
with  the  poor  little  boy  and 
girl.  Mimi,  the  daughter,  being 
somewhat  of  an  amiable  non- 
entity,   was    affected    compara- 


AND  MOTHER.  21 

tively  little  by  the  educational 
vagaries  of  her  mother.  At  one 
time  she  and  her  brother  were 
made  to  run  about  barefoot, 
at  another  to  plunge  into  the 
cold  river  from  a  bridge,  to 
"harden"  them  and  make  them 
fearless. 

But  with  Mitri  (Demetrius)— 
clever,  impulsive,  sensitive,  re- 
fined—  mistakes  were  likely  to 
be  fraught  with  evil  conse- 
quences. That  his  mother,  who 
loved  him  so  dearly,  and  whom 
he  resembled  so  much,  later  on, 
in  his  splendid  spirit  of  self- 
sacrifice  and  utter  unworldli- 
ness,  sorely  misunderstood  him 
seems  certain.  From  the  first 
she     had    an    impossibly     high 


22  A  ROYAL  SON 

standard  for  the  poor  boy,  who, 
naturally    spirited,   was  forever 
being  checked  and  veered  round 
like  a  pony  in  a  game  of  polo. 
This    led    to    a    seeming    inde- 
cision and  weakness  of  character 
very  foreign  to  his  real  nature. 
If  you  do  not  know  where  you 
stand,    it    is    difficult    to    "put 
your  foot  down."    Now,  to  his 
mother,   who    was    all  fire  and 
energy,  anything  like  weakness 
and  half- heartedness  was  of  all 
things    most     intolerable.     His 
father,   who  saw    the    boy    but 
seldom,   judged    far    more    cor- 
rectly when  he  said:    "That  lad 
has  really  a  tremendous  will  of 
his    own,   and    will    always    go 
counter  to  the  stream." 


AND  MOTHER.  23 

And  yet  all  the  different  sys- 
tems of  philosophy  and  educa- 
tion (some  absurd  enough)  that 
were  tried  on  herself  and  her 
two  children  by  the  Princess, 
were  adopted  and  abandoned 
with  such  earnestness  of  pur- 
pose, such  a  single-eyed  desire 
to  do  not  only  right  but  the 
best,  that  we  feel  the  Sacred 
Heart  must  have  been  touched; 
and  we  do  not  wonder  that 
our  generous  God  should  have 
made  all  things  co  -  operate  unto 
good  to  that  favored  mother 
and  son,  who  were  by  and  by 
to  love  Him  with  a  love  nothing 
short  of  heroic. 

Demetrius  had  a  prodigious 
memory,    and    in    his    old    age 


24  A  ROYAL  SON 

could  still  describe  how  when  he 
was  four  Years  old  he  was  taken 
to  see  the  Empress  Catherine, 
who  petted  the  pretty,  fair- 
haired,  blue  -  eyed  child,  and 
then  and  there  presented  him 
with  that  ensign's  commission 
in  the  Russian  army  which  was 
destined  to  be  the  source  of  so 
much  trouble.  He  remembered 
those  early  days  and  their 
sumptuous  elegance,  in  which, 
as  to  the  manner  born,  he  had 
been  the  little  tyrant,  ordering 
about  servants  and  serfs  in 
most  lordly  style.  But  soon 
all  that  was  changed:  he  was 
required  to  live  in  quite  a 
poor  way,  to  wait  upon  him- 
self,  and  not  to  be  spared  the 


AND  MOTHER.  25 

rod  for  childish    misdemeanors. 

In  a  memorandum  from  the 
Princess  to  the  children's  tutor 
we  find  the  following:  "Keep  a 
sharp  lookout  on  the  children's 
chief  faults.  Mimi  is  talkative, 
vindictive  and  quarrelsome ;  and 
Mitri  gives  me  much  pain  by 
his  inveterate  laziness  and  ab- 
surd want  of  pluck."  Very 
serious  are  her  letters  to  her 
son,  who  was,  after  all,  but  a 
little  boy.  On  his  fourteenth 
birthday  she  wrote  to  him : 

"My  thoughts  to-day  are  a 
mixture  of  joy  and  dread.  My 
first  thought  on  awaking  was 
certainly  one  of  joy,  love  and 
gratitude  that  God  had  given 
you     to     me,  —  that      He      had 


26  A  ROYAL  SON 

granted  me  the  grace  to  bring 
a  soul  into  the  world,  destined, 
perhaps,  to  eternal  salvation. 
But,  oh,  this  'perhaps'!  Here 
came  another  cruel  thought, 
fraught  with  fear  and  great 
uneasiness.  To-day  I  said  to 
myself:  'He  has  lived  fourteen 
years,  and  he  is  still,  alas! 
quite  will  -  less  and  colorless, 
creeping  along  life  according 
to  the  lead  and  will-power  of 
others.'  This  terrible  thought 
suggested  the  doubt  whether 
this  being  I  had  brought  into 
the  world  could  ever  grow  up 
into  a  man  pleasing  to  God,  an 
heir  of  salvation;  or  whether, 
in  spite  of  all  the  excellent  gifts 
bestowed  upon  him  by  an  all- 


AND  MOTHER.  27 

good  Creator  to  enable  him  to 
be  one  of  the  best  and  happiest 
of  men ;  whether  in  spite  of  my 
anxieties,  prayers,  entreaties,  he 
would  continue  to  hasten  on 
toward  destruction. 

"For  a  while  I  had  been  full 
of  better  hopes,  which  I  gladly 
own  have  not  altogether  left 
me;  but  they  have  all  grown 
dim  since  I  have  seen  the  ever- 
recurring  signs  of  the  slavish 
way  in  which  you  sink  back 
into  your  dreadful  sloth  and 
want  of  energy.  .  .  .  Have  mercy 
on  him,  Heavenly  Father, — have 
mercy  on  him  and  on  me !  Hear 
him,  help  him,  and  strengthen 
him  when  he  prays  with  sin- 
cerity   and    a    firm  will.     Lord, 


28  A  ROYAL  SON 

Thou  who  knowest  all  things, 
Thou  knowest  that  I  care 
nothing  for  the  praise  of  men, 
for  riches,  for  honors,  either  for 
him  or  for  myself;  but  only 
for  the  honor  of  pleasing  Thee 
and  for  the  happiness  of  both 
together  drawing  nearer  and 
nearer  to  Thee,  till  we  shall  be 
united  in  that  love  and  blessed- 
ness which  Thou  hast  promised 
us  for  the  sake  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ.     Amen." 

But  in  quoting  this  remark- 
able letter  we  are  anticipating. 
In  the  year  1779  the  Princess 
began  to  think  of  a  change  of 
residence.  Her  little  retreat  did 
not  afford  the  necessary  means 
of  education  for  children  beyond 


AND  MOTHER.  29 

a  certain  age.  At  first  Geneva 
suggested  itself  as  a  likely  place ; 
it  was  in  the  heyday  of  its 
reputation  as  a  city  of  culture 
and  modern  "enlightenment." 
Moreover,  Prince  Gallitzin  owned 
a  small  property  in  its  neighbor- 
hood, and  readily  gave  his  as- 
sent to  a  family  migration. 
But  it  was  not  to  be:  God  was 
about  to  lead  the  eager,  earnest, 
groping  soul  surely  and  sweetly 
into  His  pleasant  paths  of  peace. 
Before  Geneva  had  been  finally 
settled  upon,  Amalie  was  told 
wonders  of  a  new  educational 
system  introduced  by  Franz 
von  Fiirstenberg,  as  minister  of 
Prince  Maximilian  of  Cologne, 
into  the  town  of  Minister  and 


30  A  ROYAL  SON 

other  districts  of  Westphalia. 
This  holy  and  enlightened  priest 
was  greatly  in  advance  of  his 
age,  and  had  devised  such  an 
excellent  scheme  for  public 
education  that  even  infidel 
philosophers  were  forced  to 
express  wonder  and  admira- 
tion. 

The  Princess  was  far  too  eager 
to  investigate  anything  likely  to 
benefit  her  two  children  not  to 
decide  upon  a  visit  to  Minister 
as  soon  as  she  had  read  one  of 
Fiirstenberg's  pamphlets.  From 
their  first  acquaintance  this 
truly  great  man  made  a  pro- 
found impression  upon  her.  In 
her  letters  to  her  husband  she 
always    speaks    of  Furstenberg 


AND  MOTHER.  31 

as  le  grand  homme.  This  ad- 
miration soon  ripened  into  a 
friendship  which  made  her  feel 
the  priest's  counsel  and  support 
necessary  to  her  in  the  great 
task  of  her  life  — the  education 
of  her  children.  Moreover, 
Fiirstenberg  did  not  stand 
alone:  at  his  side  was  the 
saintly  Overberg,  who  devoted 
his  time  and  talents  to  teaching 
the  teachers  of  the  poor.  She 
felt,  and  with  reason,  that  she 
now  lived  in  an  entirely  new 
world. 

Her  new  friends  did  not  talk 
religion  to  her  —  that  would  at 
once  have  repelled  her,  —  they 
lived  religion.  Their  lives  were 
obviously  the  fruit  of  an  unseen 


32  A  ROYAL  SON 

deep    root.      Amalie    asked    no 
questions,    she    but    basked    in 
this  sunny  atmosphere  of  light 
and  life,  from  which  she  felt  it 
impossible  to  tear  herself  away. 
She    rented    a    small     country- 
place,  known  as  Angelmodde,  in 
the    neighborhood   of  Minister; 
and  now   at  length  the  days  of 
real   education  had    begun.     To 
her    own    children,     Mimi    and 
Mitri,   were  added  Amalie    von 
Schmettau,   who  afterward    be- 
came a  nun  in  Vienna;    George, 
a  son  of  the  celebrated  Jakobi; 
and  the  Droste-Vischerings,  one 
of  whom  became  dean  the  other 
bishop  of  Miinster. 

The  Princess,   in  her    anxious 
search  after  truth  and  goodness, 


AND  MOTHER.  33 

had  lost  none  of  her  old  spright- 
liness  and  charm.  Her  society 
to  the  end  was  eagerly  courted 
by  all  the  best  and  most  dis- 
tinguished men  of  her  time. 
But,  strange  to  say,  even  yet 
Amalie  continued  to  believe  she 
was  attracted  to  Fiirstenberg 
and  her  new  friends  in  spite  of, 
rather  than  because  of,  their 
religion.  "I  could  not,"  she 
once  wrote,  "blind  myself  to 
the  great  views  and  principles 
of  Herr  von  Fiirstenberg;  but 
I  felt  I  must  forgive  him  his 
Christianity  on  the  score  of 
early  education  and  prejudice. 
I  had  started  my  friendship  by 
frankly  asking  him  kindly  not 
to  convert  me,   as    in    all    that 


34  A  ROYAL  SON 

concerned  Almighty  God  I  could 
stand  no  meddling;  that  I  did 
not  fail  to  pray  to  Him  for 
light,  and  at  the  same  time  kept 
my  heart  open  to  receive  it.'' 
Hence  even  then  there  could  be 
no  question  of  definite  dogmatic 
Christian  teaching  in  the  educa- 
tion of  her  own  and  her  adopted 
children. 

Later  she  mourned  that  her 
want  of  faith  had  deprived  the 
children's  earlier  years  of  the 
blessed  knowledge  of  Christ. 
Once,  when  speaking  of  a  family 
singularly  fortunate  in  the  way 
the  sons  had  turned  out,  she 
unhesitatingly  ascribed  it  to 
their  early  training  in  piety  and 
devotion ;   adding  that  what  she 


AND  MOTHER.  35 

had  obtained  only  through  in- 
finite pains  and  labor,  these 
Christian  parents  had  effected 
with  comparatively  little  or  no 
trouble. 

But  a  practical  difficulty  now 
arose.  What  were  the  children, 
no  longer  little  children,  to  be 
taught  about  religion?  It  was 
the  very  last  subject  she  would 
entrust  to  the  teaching  of  a 
stranger ;  yet  what  did  she  her- 
self know  or  believe  about  it? 
But  at  length  she  solved  the 
vexed  problem  by  resolving  to 
teach  them  "historical  Christi- 
anity," as  she  called  it,  leaving 
them  free  to  choose  their  own 
religion  as  they  grew  up.  But 
even  for  this  she  had  to  qualify 


36  A  ROYAL  SON 

herself,     and     with     her     usual 

whole  -  heartedness    she     threw 

herself  into  a  most  careful  and 

conscientious  study  of  the  Bible, 

especially  of  the  New  Testament. 

And  then    there    arose    before 

her,  dim   and  shadowy  at  first, 

but  ever  gaining  in  strength  and 

light    and    beauty,    the    blessed 

picture  of  the  Incarnate  God, — 

of  Him    who    is    not    only    the 

light  of  the  New  Jerusalem,  but 

the  sunshine,  the  glory  of  every 

faithful  soul  in  this  vale  of  tears. 

"I  resolved,"    she    says    in    her 

memoirs,  "to  obey  our  Saviour's 

touching  advice:    'My  doctrine 

is  not  Mine  but  His  that  sent 

Me.      If  any  man  will    do    the 

will  of  Him,  he  shall  know    of 


AND  MOTHER.  37 

the  doctrine.'  Consequently  I 
began  to  act  as  if  I  really  be- 
lieved in  Him.  I  at  once  com- 
pared my  principles  and  actions 
with  His  teaching;  and  how 
much  did  I  not  find  that  re- 
quired attention, — many  things 
that  before  had  hardly  seemed 
to  me  to  be  faults!  I  had 
prayed  before  only  rarely,  now 
I  began  to  pray  frequently; 
and  so  often  were  my  peti- 
tions answered  that  I  became 
incapable  of  doubting  the  effi- 
cacy of  prayer.  Certain  doubts 
against  Christianity  also  were 
gradually  cleared  away." 

During  this  time  of  spiritual 
growth  she  was  attacked  by  a 
dangerous    and    tedious    illness, 


38  A  ROYAL  SON 

during  which  she  was  forbidden 
to  exert  herself  in  any  way ; 
even  the  children's  education 
had  to  be  entrusted  to  other 
hands.  Hence  she  had  plenty 
of  leisure  for  quiet  reflection, 
self-examination,  and  above  all 
prayer.  And  so  it  came  about 
that  on  the  Feast  of  St. 
Augustine,  which  happened  also 
to  be  her  birthday,  Amalie's 
eager,  troubled  spirit  found  joy 
and  peace  in  a  very  humble 
confession  —  her  first  since  the 
old  days  of  childhood.  In  the 
saintly  Dr.  Overberg  she  found 
not  merely  a  confessor,  but  a 
spiritual  father,  —  "some  one 
who,"  as  she  so  well  expresses 
it,     "would    care    for    me    suf- 


AND  MOTHER.  39 

ficicntly  in  spite  of  all  my 
unlovableness,  out  of  pure 
Christian  zeal;  one  who  would 
look  after  me  spiritually,  train 
me,  correct,  comfort  and  exhort 
me." 

Soon  afterward  she  wrote 
to  Mitri,  somewhat  wistfully: 
"Dear  child,  I  am  obliged  to 
grieve  you  so  often  because  I 
must  wish  and  will  for  you 
what  till  now  you  have  not 
known  how  to  wish  and  will 
for  yourself;  and  I  have  had  to 
keep  3rou  from  what  you  most 
eagerly  desired.  Believe  me, 
my  dear  son,  this  constant 
thwarting  of  your  wishes  is 
the  hardest  of  my  duties;  for 
it     seems     to     me     as     though 


40  A  ROYAL  SON 

thereby  I  might  lose  your  love 
and  confidence.  And  yet  some 
day  —  perchance  only  after  I  am 
in  my  grave  —  you  will  learn  to 
bless  me  for  this  strictness." 
And  the  day  did  come;  for  in 
far -distant  America  the  grand 
old  missionary  would  at  times, 
with  tears  in  his  eyes,  talk  by 
the  hour  in  glowing  words  of 
his  "glorious  mother." 

Amalie's  children  soon  followed 
her  example  in  submitting  them- 
selves to  the  Church.  On  Trinity 
Sunday,  1787,  they  were  both 
Confirmed  ;  they  were  now 
seventeen  and  eighteen  years 
of  age. 

Prince  Gallitzin  seems  to  have 
manifested  no  displeasure  at  the 


AND  MOTHER.  41 

religious  conversion  of  his  wife 
and  children.  As  his  son  was 
receiving  the  liberal  education 
befitting  a  youth  of  his  rank  — 
an  education  that  included 
French,  music,  riding,  fencing, 
dancing,  and  the  more  serious 
studies  requisite  for  the  military 
profession, —  the  father  was  sat- 
isfied, and  had  sufficient  good 
taste  and  feeling  to  be  glad  that 
to  all  these  things  should  be 
added  innocence  of  life  and  high 
principle.  Seven  years  earlier 
Amalie  had  considered  the 
children  old  enough  to  profit 
by  travel;  and  Demetrius  in 
later  life  would  recall  with 
interest  the  visits  paid  with 
his  mother  to  the  Stolbergs  at 


42  A  ROYAL  SON 

Eutin,  to  Jakobi  at  Diisseldorf ; 
above  all  to  Weimar,  the  Athens 
of  Germany,  where  the  noble 
Herder  seems  to  have  attracted 
the  lad  more  than  the  great 
Goethe  himself;  though  Goethe 
was  a  sincere  admirer  of  the 
Princess. 

There  is  an  account  of  an 
interesting  interview  between 
Amalie  and  Goethe  in  after 
years.  She,  full  as  usual  of 
her  beautiful,  earnest  zeal  for 
souls,  invited  Goethe  to  her 
house  at  Miinster, —  an  invita- 
tion gladly,  though  perhaps  a 
little  timorously,  accepted.  The 
great  man  probably  guessed 
what  he  was  "in  for,"  and 
showed     no     resentment    when 


AND  MOTHER.  43 

the  Princess  began,  after  the 
manner  of  the  saints,  to  speak 
to  her  guest  of  the  judgment 
to  come.  The  next  day,  when  he 
departed,  she  accompanied  him 
a  stage  or  two  of  his  journey, 
still  speaking  to  him  with  that 
wonderful  absolute  conviction 
which  invariably  commanded 
respect,  often  admiration,  and 
not  infrequently  brought  about 
conversion.  Alas!  in  the  case 
of  Goethe  it  was  to  bring  forth 
only  the  first  two  of  these  fruits. 
But  such  pleasant  journeys  in 
the  Fatherland  were  considered 
insufficient  for  the  liberal  edu- 
cation of  the  children  of  the 
upper  classes  of  those  times. 
As  Demetrius  grew  older,  Prince 


44  A  ROYAL  SON 

Gallitzin  did  indeed  talk  of 
sending  him  straight  to  St. 
Petersburg  to  join  the  army; 
but  his  mother  was  opposed  to 
this  plan.  Her  Catholic  heart, 
no  doubt,  shrank  from  exposing 
her  son,  whom  she  considered 
very  unformed,  very  young  for 
his  age,  very  "infirm  of  pur- 
pose," to  the  corruption  of 
Russian  high  life.  Moreover, 
her  motherly  vanity  wished  to 
see  him  more  polished,  less 
angular;  and  so  a  distant  voy- 
age was  discussed. 

Till  now  there  had  been  but 
one  place  where  "golden  youth" 
could  receive  its  extra  coat  of 
gilding  ;  but,  happily,  Paris, 
the    gilder's     shop,    could     not 


AND  MOTHER.  45 

then  be  thought  of,  —  it  was 
in  the  throes  of  that  terrible 
revolution  of  which  no  one 
could  foresee  the  end.  An 
alternative  was  decided  upon, 
in  which  we  can  not  fail  to 
see  the  guidance  of  Providence. 
The  Gallitzins  determined  to 
send  their  son  to  America  for 
two  years,  —  why  it  seems  a 
little  difficult  to  say.  Probably 
the  Princess,  who  looked  upon 
Mitri  as  an  idle  dreamer  and 
somewhat  of  a  weakling,  judged 
that  having  to  "shift  for  him- 
self" and  stand  alone  for  a 
time  would  strengthen  and 
develop  his  character. 

A  young  priest  named  Brosius, 
tutor  in  the  Droste  family,  had 


46  A  ROYAL  SON 

just  decided  to    go  to  America 

as    a   missionary.     This    would 

be     an     excellent      escort      for 

Demetrius,    whose     two     years 

in    America    were    to    be    spent 

in    making    himself    conversant 

with    the   language,    laws    and 

habits    of  this    interesting    and 

most  flourishing  country.  Prince 

Gallitzin     was    an    admirer    of 

Washington  and  Jefferson,   and 

in   his    letters    to    his    son  bids 

him  try  for  familiar  intercourse 

with     such     great     men.       His 

mother,  too,  furnished  him  with 

an  introduction  from  the  Bishop 

of    Hildesheim    and    Paderborn 

to  the  celebrated  John  Carroll, 

first     Bishop     of     Baltimore, — 

indeed  in  those  days    the    only 


AND  MOTHER.  47 

Catholic    bishop    in    the    whole 
of  the  United  States. 

Demetrius  set  out  on  his  long 
journey  in  August,  1792.  His 
departure  furnishes  a  curious 
anecdote.  Had  the  sensitive 
and  high  -  souled  youth  of 
twenty  -  two  summers  some 
presentiment  that,  once  gone, 
he  would  never  return;  that 
this  was  a  last  solemn  fare- 
well to  home,  to  friends,  to 
country, —  in  fact,  to  all  human 
brightness?  At  any  rate,  his 
resolution  failed  him  ;  and,  with 
what  his  mother  considered 
characteristic  indecision,  he 
began  to  discuss  whether  the 
journey  had  not  best  be  given 
up,  after  all.    The  moment  was 


48  A  ROYAL  SON 

certainly  ill  chosen:  already  his 
mother  and  he  were  walking 
arm  in  arm  to  the  quay  at 
Rotterdam,  whence  a  little  boat 
was  to  take  him  on  board  the 
great  ocean  vessel.  For  a  few 
minutes  Amalie  said  never  a 
word;  then,  with  flashing  eyes, 
she  exclaimed,  "  Mitri,  I  am 
most  heartily  ashamed  of  you  !  " 
and  the  next  moment  Demetrius 
found  himself  floundering  in  the 
water.  He  was  quickly  picked 
up  by  the  laughing  sailors,  who 
at  a  sign  from  his  mother  rowed 
him  swiftly  away. 

The  dear  old  priest,  Father 
Gallitzin,  when  he  merrily  told 
this  tale  against  himself  forty- 
two  years  later,  would  not  be 


AND  MOTHER.  49 

positive  that  the  "accident" 
had  not  perhaps  been  occasioned 
by  a  quick,  involuntary  move- 
ment on  the  part  of  his  mother, 
causing  him  to  stumble  and  so 
fall  into  the  sea ;  but  he  very 
much  inclined  to  the  opinion 
that  she  had  purposely  given 
him  this  wholesome  ducking. 


50  A  ROYAL  SON 


II. — America. 
It  is  strange  that  Gallitzin's 
sudden  immersion  should  have 
effected  as  sudden  a  change  in 
his  character.  Up  to  then  he 
was  the  refined,  romantic,  pur- 
poseless youth  ;  henceforth  he  is 
a  man  of  energy  and  action  — 
devoted,  self-sacrificing,  ready 
to  do  and  dare  anything  in 
the  great  cause  to  which  he 
was  about  to  give  his  life. 
Almost  the  first  news  received 
in  Germany  from  our  traveller 
was  the  very  astounding  in- 
telligence that  he  had  resolved 
to    leave    all    things    and  settle 


AND  MOTHER.  51 

down  in  America  as  a  poor, 
despised  missionary  of  the  Cross 
of  Christ. 

Mitri,  her  own  beloved  Mitri — 
dear  and  good,  it  is  true,  but 
somewhat  of  a  "softy,"  a  pur- 
poseless dreamer, —  now  a  priest, 
and  above  all  a  missionary! 
His  mother  could  hardly  believe 
her  senses.  This  was  the  son  to 
whom  but  a  few  years  before 
she  had  written:  "It  is  a 
wretched  thing  that  a  youth 
of  eighteen  should  be  a  child. 
He  can  not,  of  course,  as  yet 
be  a  man;  but  he  must  be  a 
youth  and  no  longer  a  child, 
if  he  ever  means  to  be  a 
man." 

And  now  Princess  Amalie  had 


52  A  ROYAL  SON 

a  hard  time  of  it.  She  was  a 
chronic  invalid,  a  great  sufferer. 
With  all  her  seeming  harshness 
toward  Mitri,  she  loved  him 
dearly  and  well.  Yet  she  had 
to  bear  not  only  his  loss,  but 
to  be  blamed  by  her  husband 
and  all  her  relatives  for  being 
in  the  secret, —  for  having  known 
"  all  about  it "  throughout.  And 
when  able  to  disprove  this  as- 
sertion, she  was  still  accused 
of  having,  through  her  exag- 
gerated piety,  been  the  means 
of  putting  such  high  -  flown 
ideas  into  the  young  man's 
head.  The  Prince  was  the  first 
to  recognize  his  mistake  and 
to  write  a  generous  letter  to 
his    wife,    freeing   her    from    all 


AND  MOTHER.  53 

blame;  which,  considering  his 
grievous  disappointment,  was 
most  creditable  to  him. 

The  Gallitzins  were  indeed  in 
a  very  awkward  position.  As 
Demetrius  held  an  ensign's  com- 
mission in  the  Russian  army, 
and  was  due  in  St.  Petersburg 
at  the  end  of  two  years  at  the 
latest,  his  father  now  wrote  to 
him  entreating  him,  almost  com- 
manding him,  to  return;  for  he 
foresaw  clearly  enough  what 
a  refusal  would  entail.  Accord- 
ing to  Russian  law,  he  would 
be  disinherited  for  becoming  a 
Catholic  priest ;  but  besides  this 
he  would,  because  of  his  neglect 
to  take  up  his  commission,  be 
looked  upon  as  a  quasi-deserter, 


54  A  ROYAL  SON 

and  be  banished  from  the  empire 
as  a  rebel. 

It  was  now  that  the  full 
beauty  and  magnanimity  of 
Amalie  Gallitzin  were  seen  in 
their  true  light.  Her  absolute 
unworldliness,  her  reverence  for 
the  slightest  whisper  of  the 
Divine  Voice  were  so  great  that 
never  once  did  she  seek  to  turn 
Mitri  from  his  purpose,  beyond 
quietly  laying  the  state  of  the 
case  before  him  for  his  own 
judgment.  In  spite  of  worry 
and  opposition  and  a  good 
deal  of  secret  heartache,  in  the 
depths  of  her  great  soul  she 
rejoiced  and  gloried  in  the 
vocation  of  her  son. 

When  the  Princess  had  given 


AND  MOTHER.  55 

Mitri  the  Bishop  of  Hildesheim's 
introduction  to  the  Bishop  of 
Baltimore,  she  no  doubt  im- 
agined him  one  of  those  dig- 
nitaries of  the  Church,  such 
as  they  were  in  Germany  —  a 
temporal  lord,  a  man  of  vast 
influence,  who  lived  in  a  palace 
and  had  a  large  seminary  and 
other  ecclesiastical  establish- 
ments under  his  control.  How 
different  was  the  reality! 

John  Carroll  had  been  named 
Bishop  in  1790,  two  years  before 
Gallitzin's  arrival.  He  belonged 
to  one  of  those  honorable 
families  that  had  come  over 
to  America  in  Lord  Baltimore's 
time  and  settled  in  Maryland. 
His  cousin   Charles  was  a  true- 


56  A  ROYAL  SON 

hearted  patriot,  who  had  signed 
the  Declaration  of  American 
Independence.  Demetrius  found 
Bishop  Carroll  living  a  life  of 
truly  evangelical  poverty  and 
hardship.  Beyond  a  small  pri- 
vate fortune,  he  possessed  no 
means  except  such  as,  with 
some  difficulty  he  derived  from 
Europe;  for  no  endowment  went 
with  the  episcopal  dignity. 

Carroll  had  received  his  ec- 
clesiastical education  in  France, 
where  he  had  formed  many 
friendly  relations.  Hence  when 
the  revolution  broke  out  several 
distinguished  French  priests 
came  to  America  and  offered 
him  their  services.  Among  these 
were     the    Abbe    Dubois,    who 


AND  MOTHER.  37 

died  in  extreme  old  age  as 
the  first  Bishop  of  New  York; 
Flaget,  Bishop  of  Louisville; 
Brute,  afterward  Bishop  of  Vin- 
cennes ;  and  Nagot,  president  of 
the  famous  Seminary  of  St. 
Sulpice  in  Paris.  When  first 
this  little  band  of  devoted  men 
came  to  the  new  country,  they 
had  to  earn  their  daily  bread 
by  giving  French  lessons;  and 
only  after  mastering  the  diffi- 
culties of  the  English  language 
were  they  able  to  help  Bishop 
Carroll  in  the  care  of  souls. 

The  Abbe  Nagot  soon  founded 
an  establishment  for  training 
youths  for  the  priesthood;  it 
was  on  so  modest  a  scale  and  so 
humble  in  its  beginnings  it  could 


58  A  ROYAL  SON 

hardly  be  called  a  seminary. 
Among  its  candidates  for  the 
priesthood,  Stephen  Badin  was 
the  first  and  Demetrius  Gallitzin 
the  second. 

At  first,  of  course,  Gallitzin 
took  up  his  abode  in  the  quasi- 
seminary  simply  for  conveni- 
ence' sake — as  a  visitor, — for 
Brosius,  his  travelling  com- 
panion, had  been  sent  off  to 
another  mission ;  so  he  was 
alone.  But  he  had  hardly  been 
Abbe  Nagot's  guest  for  two 
months  ere  he  wrote  a  letter 
to  Minister,  in  which  he  said 
that  he  had  dedicated  himself, 
soul  and  body,  with  all  that 
he  had  and  all  that  he  was, 
to  God's  service  and  the  salva- 


AND  MOTHER.  59 

tion  of  his  neighbor  in  America ; 
and  that  what  had  led  him  to 
this  resolve  was  the  urgent  need 
of  workers  in  the  Lord's  vine- 
yard. He  saw  that  priests  in 
this  country  had  often  to  ride 
for  forty  or  fifty  hours  or  more 
to  administer  the  Sacraments  to 
the  faithful.  He  could  scarcely 
fear  that  any  one  would  doubt 
the  sincerity  of  his  vocation, 
considering  the  prospect  of  very 
hard  work  which  it  entailed. 

This  was  indeed  true.  Mitri 
had  well  counted  the  cost;  for 
was  he  not  living  in  the  heart 
of  the  painful  but  glorious  self- 
immolation  which  characterized 
those  first  Catholic  missionaries? 
There  was  nothing  feverish    or 


60  A  ROYAL  SON 

spasmodic  in  his  resolve:  the 
sacred  fire  had  been  quietly 
kindled  in  his  heart;  little  was 
said  by  hirn  at  any  time,  only 
much  was  done. 

The  jroung  man  was  to  receive 
no  outward  encouragement. 
The  letter  to  which  I  have 
just  referred  was  written  to 
his  confessor  in  Miinster,  —  a 
good  man,  a  Franciscan  friar, 
but  a  man  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  He  seems  to  have 
been  too  much  alarmed  to 
reply.  Only  after  a  second 
letter  from  Mitri  had  made 
it  clear  that  his  advice  was 
no  longer  needed,  and  that 
the  decisive  step  had  already 
been    taken,    did    he    pluck    up 


AND  MOTHER.  61 

courage  to  write.  In  a  long- 
winded  Latin  epistle,  full  of 
platitudes,  he,  a  son  of  St. 
Francis,  dared  not  positively 
say,  "Give  up  this  high-flown 
nonsense  and  return  to  your 
family";  but  he  said  that  it 
was  Mitri's  duty  to  consult 
his  father,  and  to  do  nothing 
till  he  had  obtained  his  consent. 
Alas  for  the  friar  if  his  blessed 
founder  had  followed  such  ad- 
vice! 

Demetrius  had,  of  course, 
written  to  him  in  confidence, 
with  the  express  recommenda- 
tion to  say  nothing  even  to 
his  mother  for  the  present;  for 
he  had  made  up  his  mind  not 
to    proceed    in    the   matter    till 


62  A  ROYAL  SON 

he  had  waited  a  reasonable  time 
for  a  reasonable  answer.  The 
reply  failed  to  come;  and  when 
at  length  the  friar  did  write,  it 
transpired  that  Demetrius'  first 
letter  had  been  handed  to  him 
by  the  Princess  herself,  who  said 
she  had  received  but  a  short, 
unsatisfactory  letter  from  her 
son ;  and  as  the  Father's  seemed 
to  be  a  longer  letter,  she  asked 
him  if  he  would  read  it  and  tell 
her  what  her  son  wished  or 
was  doing. 

"As  I  had  forgotten  my  spec- 
tacles," the  worthy  man  writes, 
"Dr.  Overberg,  who  was  also 
present,  offered  to  read  the 
letter  aloud,  which  he  did  from 
beginning  to  end.      How  I  felt 


AND  MOTHER.  63 

during  the  reading  and  how 
overcome  the  reader  himself 
was  you  can  not  well  imagine. 
What  deep  sorrow  filled  my 
heart  as  I  saw  your  mother 
look  so  sad  and  anxious!  Herr 
von  Fiirstenberg  was  absolutely 
silent.  Oh,  how  I  sighed  when 
I  noticed  that  I  had  been  the 
innocent  cause  of  so  much 
sorrow ! " 

The  poor  young  student,  so 
far  from  receiving  encourage- 
ment, was  disturbed  by  long 
letters  from  all  sides,  seeking 
to  change  his  purpose.  Even 
good  men  could  not  appreciate 
the  heights  of  such  a  vocation 
as  this.  Such  a  new  experience 
in  the   even    tenor  of  the  dear 


64  A  ROYAL  SON 

old  Miinster  existence  puzzled 
the  saintly  Overberg  himself, — 
who,  however,  soon  came  to 
Gamaliel's  conclusion — "If  it  be 
of  men  it  will  come  to  naught; 
if  it  be  of  God  no  one  can  resist 
it," — and  contented  himself  with 
merely  exhorting  his  young 
friend  to  prove  his  own  heart 
earnestly,  and  not  to  be  in  too 
great  a  hurry  to  take  any  ir- 
revocable step. 

The  excellent  Von  Fiirsten- 
berg  winced  at  the  scandal  of 
the  Cross,  —  at  the  trials  and 
humiliations  of  an  unknown 
missionary  in  a  strange  land. 
If  Mitri  really  wished  to  be 
a  priest,  he  wrote,  why  not 
return    to    Europe,   where    such 


AND  M OTHER.  65 

a  vocation  could  at  least  be 
carried  out  in  a  manner  suit- 
able to  his  rank  and  position? 
It  can,  therefore,  be  no  matter 
of  surprise  that  Mitri's  Protes- 
tant relatives  should  be  furious. 
His  uncle,  a  Russian  general, 
wrote  that  he  considered  cer- 
tain enthusiasts  must  be  to 
blame  for  making  his  nephew 
forget  his  rank  and  family,  as 
well  as  all  sense  of  fitness  and 
propriety,  to  embrace  "a  state 
of  shame  and  disgrace." 

In  the  meantime,  as  Gallitzin's 
German  biographer  writes,  "his 
mother,  though  she  was  the 
hardest  hit  and  had  to  bear 
the  brunt  of  the  storm,  behaved 
much    the    most    sensiblv.      She 


66  A  ROYAL  SON 

wrote  immediately  to  the  Abbe 
Nagot,  the  Bishop  of  Baltimore, 
and  Herr  Brosius.  And  when, 
through  their  answers  and  the 
letters  of  her  son,  she  felt  as- 
sured that  it  was  a  true  voca- 
tion, she  was  unconcerned  as  to 
the  worldly  consequences  of  so 
unusual  a  proceeding,  and  ex- 
ulted in  the  happiness  of  being 
the  mother  of  a  young  man 
so  superior  to  the  colorless, 
commonplace  personalities  of 
these  times  as  to  have  been 
capable  of  choosing  such  a 
state  of  life." 

Prince  Gallitzin  ( or  Herr 
Schmet,  as  he  was  called )  was 
all  the  while  quietly  pursuing 
his    studies    at  Georgetown,  to 


AND  MOTHER.  67 

which  place  the  little  seminary 
had  been  removed  from  Balti- 
more. Humility  had  doubtless 
much  to  do  with  the  ugly  alias 
to  which  Gallitzin  persistently 
clung;  but  in  the  first  instance 
it  had  been  motived  by  a  little 
human  prudence.  A  prince  is 
often  fleeced ;  and  Mitri's  father 
had  wisely  suggested  that  the 
American  tour  could  be  made 
equally  pleasant  at  half  the 
expense  if  the  young  man 
travelled  as  plain  Herr  Schmet. 
In  1793  his  mother  writes: 
"The  greatest— nay,  the  only 
happiness  that  can  rejoice  the 
heart  of  man  here  below  is 
to  be  able  to  put  himself  just 
there    where    God    would   have 


68  A  ROYAL  SON 

him  be,  and  then  to  fill  that 
post  worthily  and  well."  She 
goes  on  to  assure  him  that  all 
the  reproaches  and  unpleasant- 
nesses she  may  have  to  bear 
on  his  account  will  be  accepted 
cheerfully;  and  that  she  can 
conceive  no  greater  delight,  no 
more  splendid  reward  for  all 
her  sorrows  and  cares  than  to 
see  the  son  of  her  heart  standing 
at  God's  altar.  Only  two  things 
would  she  ask  of  him  :  first,  not 
to  hurry  —  carefully  to  examine 
his  own  heart  before  taking  the 
irrevocable  step;  secondly,  to 
promise  her  to  keep  his  free- 
dom—  not  to  bind  himself  by 
vow  to  the  American  mission; 
for,   though  determined  not    to 


AND  MOTHER.  69 

keep  back  anything  in  her 
sacrifice,  she  could  not  as  yet 
face  the  thought  of  never  seeing 
her  only  son  again. 

Gallitzin's  friends  were  of 
opinion  that  by  a  timely, 
merely  temporary  return  to 
Em-ope,  some  settlement  might 
be  made  with  the  Russian 
government  so  that  at  least 
part  of  his  inheritance  might 
come  to  him.  However,  a  re- 
quest for  his  return  had  been 
anticipated  by  Demetrius,  who 
had  at  once  written  to  say 
that  he  renounced  all  claim 
to  his  inheritance.  In  a  letter 
to  Amalie  the  elder  Gallitzin 
explains  that  the  mere  fact  of 
their    son's    having    become    a 


70  A  ROYAL  SON 

priest  disinherited  him  accord- 
ing to  Russian  law.  And  he 
adds: 

"All  that  I  have  will  conse- 
quently go  to  Mimi,  whom, 
however,  1  know  to  be  honor- 
able and  generous,  so  that  her 
conscience  would  never  allow 
her  to  rob  her  brother  in  order 
to  enrich  herself.  ...  If  you  wish 
you  may  send  on  this  letter  to 
Mitri.  It  will  save  me  the  pain 
of  writing  to  him  myself.  I 
must  add,  however,  that,  in 
my  opinion,  if  a  nobleman 
renounces  the  profession  of 
arms  to  which  he  is  destined 
by  his  birth  and  enters  the 
Church,  he  can  do  no  less  than 
become  either  a  missionary    or 


AND  MOTHER.  71 

a  monk,  if  he  wishes  to  prove 
to  the  world  that  the  career 
to  which  he  was  entitled  was 
abandoned  neither  through 
cowardice   nor    ambition." 


72  A  ROYAL  SON 


III.  —  The  Founding  of 
Loretto. 

In  March,  1795,  Demetrius 
Gallitzin  was  ordained  priest, 
and  at  once  set  to  work;  for 
in  April  we  already  find  him 
at  Port  Tobacco  with  another 
missionary.  The  self- forgetful 
zeal  and  splendid  spiritual  gal- 
lantry which  were  to  char- 
acterize his  long  and  arduous 
apostolical  career  at  once 
showed  themselves.  In  the  very 
first  month  of  his  new  labors 
there  was  a  letter  from  Bishop 
Carroll  bidding  him  moderate 
his  ardor  and  spare  his  strength 


AND  MOTHER.  73 

more;  for  it  had  reached  his 
Lordship's  ears  that  the  young 
priest  would  often  travel  un- 
conscionable distances  in  his 
love  for  souls,  even  "in  weather 
unfit  for  a  dog."  Bishop  Carroll 
knew  only  too  well  from  per- 
sonal experience  what  sort 
of  entertainment  awaited  the 
weary  missionary  after  a  jour- 
ney of  this  kind.  So  Gallitzin 
was  ordered  to  return  to  Balti- 
more for  a  while  to  take  charge 
of  the  German  Catholics,  who 
were  clamoring  for  a  priest  con- 
versant with  their  language. 

Gallitzin  remained  for  two  or 
three  years,  first  at  Conewago, 
a  settlement  composed  mainly 
of  Germans ;  and  then  at  Taney- 


74  A  ROYAL  SON 

town,     Maryland,     which     had 
an  exclusively  English-speaking 
community;   so  that  he  had  to 
resort  to  this  language,   which 
he    soon    learned    not    only    to 
speak  but  also    to    write    with 
singular   ease    and    purity.     In- 
deed toward  the  end  of  his  life 
his    German    grew    very    rusty. 
After  all,  French  had  been    the 
fashion  at  home;   and  there  was 
now  a  strong  feeling  that  Gal- 
litzin  preferred  the  English  and 
Irish   sheep  of  his  flock  to    his 
own  country    people.      If  so,  it 
was  not    unnatural:    the    Irish 
and     English     emigrants     were 
often  excellent  specimens  of  their 
countrymen;     whereas  in  those 
days  the  settlers  from  Germany 


AND  MOTHER.  75 

were  frequently  the  reverse.    But 
this  is  anticipating. 

He  had  not  been  long  at 
Taneytown  before  he  and  his 
church  -  trustees  fell  out,  —  a 
thing  at  that  time  so  common 
that  it  would  not  be  worth 
mentioning,  says  his  biographer, 
had  it  not  been  the  occasion  of 
making  Gallitzin  first  think  of 
founding  an  independent  colony 
established  on  entirely  Catholic 
lines. 

In  the  year  1798  Bishop 
Carroll  wrote  to  inform  him 
that  some  of  his  flock  had 
been  complaining  of  his  harsh- 
ness and  high-handedness.  The 
good  Bishop  knew  how  to  take 
such  an  accusation  with  a  very 


76  A  ROYAL  SON 

large  grain  of  salt;  still  he 
thought  it  well  to  remind  his 
ardent  missionary  to  temper 
zeal  for  God's  glory  with  gentle- 
ness and  forbearance  toward 
his  neighbor.  The  advice  was 
given  in  the  most  paternal 
spirit;  and  it  may  well  have 
been  that  Gallitzin,  with  the 
blood  of  many  a  Russian  despot 
in  his  veins,  should  sometimes 
have  found  it  difficult  to  ac- 
commodate himself  to  the  ways 
of  American  democracy.  But  he 
was  singularly  clear-headed  as 
well  as  far  -  seeing  ;  and  not 
many  years  were  needed  to 
prove  to  the  rising  episcopate 
that  he  had  been  contending 
for  something  worth  a  contest  — 


AND  MOTHER.  77 

the  freedom  and  independence 
of  action  of  the  clergy,  without 
which  a  priest's  position  in  re- 
gard to  his  flock  becomes  false 
and  untenable.  The  trustee  sys- 
tem, which  answers  among  the 
various  Protestant  sects,  does 
not  work  well  in  a  Catholic 
parish.  The  priest's  position  is 
that  of  the  spiritual  father  of 
a  family,  not  that  of  a  salaried 
preacher  to  a  congregation  of 
critics. 

It  may  here  be  objected  that 
trustees  were  useful  in  the  erec- 
tion of  churches,  founding  of 
missions,  etc.  Even  in  such 
cases  it  is  not  clear  that  the 
system  worked  well.  In  a  new 
country,  where  speculation  was 


78  A  ROYAL  SON 

the  order  of  the  day,  sharp 
practice  might  be  resorted  to 
in  the  building  of  a  church  or 
school  as  unscrupulously  as  in 
that  of  a  theatre  or  factory. 
Sacred  buildings  would  be 
erected  with  borrowed  money, 
which  might  be  reclaimed  by 
an  unfortunate  speculator  at 
a  moment  when  it  was  im- 
possible to  pay  back  the  loan; 
and  thus  a  church  might  come 
under  the  hammer,  without  any 
regard  to  its  holy  character. 

Pews  —  of  the  old-fashioned 
kind,  provided  with  lock  and 
key  —  filled  the  churches,  and 
were  let  to  the  highest  bidders 
by  auction.  To  Gallitzin,  such 
a  system,   which  left    the    poor 


AND  MOTHER.  79 

no  alternative  but  to  be  jostled 
in  the  doorway  or  to  stop  at 
home,     was     an     abomination. 
He  also  strongly  resented  trial 
sermons,     such     as     are     usual 
among  Presbyterians,  where  the 
congregations  are  free  to  choose 
whichever  candidate  has  pleased 
them  best  by  his  discourse. ,  Gal- 
litzin  could  not  and  would  not 
be  a  parish    priest   under   such 
conditions.    It  was  not  for  this 
that    he    had    left     home     and 
country  and  fortune  and  honors. 
In  his  old  age  he  was  asked 
how  the  strange  idea  had  ever 
entered  his  head  of  wandering 
forth     into    the    wilderness    to 
found  his  Catholic  colony,  from 
whence  at  first  he  had  had  to 


80  A  ROYAL  SON 

send  no  less  than  fifty  miles  to 
the  nearest  mill,  and  twice  as 
far  for  coffee,  salt,  sugar,  and 
other  necessaries.  He  replied: 
"I  migrated  to  get  away  from 
trustees,  pew  -  renting,  and  all 
the  other  evils  connected  with 
the  system;  and  there  were  no 
means  of  escape  but  to  devise 
another  system  with  laws  of 
its  own.  Wherever  the  work 
had  been  already  begun,  it  was 
spoiled  because  Catholics  had 
always  copied  Protestants.  I 
recollect  going  to  Philadelphia 
to  pay  Brosius  a  visit  and  to 
see  what  the  place  was  like. 
While  saying  Mass  in  the  church 
belonging  to  the  Germans,  I 
heard    a    constant    rolling    and 


AND  MOTHER.  81 

banging,  with  shouts  and  loud 
speaking.  When  I  asked  what 
it  all  meant,  I  was  told  that 
there  was  a  cellar  under  the 
church  which  had  been  let  by 
the  trustees  to  a  wine  and 
spirit  merchant.  'Well,  well,'  I 
said  to  myself,  'and  has  it 
really  come  to  this?  Never  will 
I  enter  that  church  again."' 

The  idea  which  soon  shaped 
itself  in  his  mind  was  to  found 
a  little  Catholic  community  in 
the  far  West.  The  "far  West" 
in  those  days  was  Pennsylvania; 
for  anything  still  farther  was  as 
yet  a  complete  wilderness,  in- 
fested by  Indians  and  wild 
beasts.  A  small  colony  had 
some    years    previously    settled 


82  A  ROYAL  SON 

in  the  present  St.  Vincent,  and 
thence  a  few  families  had  pushed 
on  about  fifty  miles  to  the 
northeast  into  the  Allegheny 
Mountains. 

Gallitzin,  who  had  occasionally 
visited  these  people  from  Taney- 
town,  decided  to  cast  in  his  lot 
among  them,  and  accordingly 
wrote  to  the  Bishop  for  the 
necessary  permission.  In  his 
reply  the  Bishop  expressed  great 
surprise  at  so  strange  a  request, 
and  doubted  whether  Gallitzin 
would  have  strength  for  so 
arduous  an  undertaking.  How- 
ever, he  added:  "I  will  grant 
your  petition,  and  heartily  agree 
to  your  evangelizing  from  thence 
the     districts     you     mention  — 


AND  MOTHER  83 

Huntington  and  other  places 
lying  nearer  to  the  East,  and 
consequently  to  civilization." 

In  the  August  of  1799Gallitzin 
and  his  flock  set  out  for  the  new 
mission,  in  which  the  indefati- 
gable pastor  was  to  labor  for 
forty  years,  and  where  he  was 
to  find  his  last  resting-place. 
Several  respectable  families,  all 
Catholics,  accompanied  him ; 
these  were  people  who  were 
too  poor  to  acquire  land  in 
already  civilized  districts. 

A  journey  of  this  kind  was 
in  those  days  no  light  matter; 
for  roads  were  altogether  want- 
ing. Women,  children  and  bag- 
gage went  on  pack  -  horses, 
or  in  carts  and  sledges  drawn 


84  A  ROYAL  SON 

by  oxen;  the  men  acted  as 
pioneers,  clearing  the  way  for 
the  caravan  to  follow.  Only 
short  distances  could  be  travelled 
in  one  day,  and  at  night  they 
had  all  to  camp  in  the  forests. 

An  Irishman  of  the  name  of 
McGuire  had  left  a  rough  tract 
of  land  to  Bishop  Carroll  as 
church  property;  this  the  Bishop 
now  handed  over  to  Gallitzin, 
who,  besides,  bought  out  of  his 
own  fortune  another  large  piece 
of  ground,  which  he  let  to  his 
poor  parishioners  on  most  easy 
terms.  Indeed  for  many  plots 
he  never  received  a  penny. 

The  first  buildings  erected  in 
the  speedily -cleared  settlement 
were  two  modest  log  edifices, — 


AND  MOTHER.  85 

one  the  church,  the  other  the 
presbytery.  On  Christmas  night, 
1799,  the  first  Mass  was  said 
in  the  new  church.  Fervor  was 
great :  no  one  thought  of  sleep ; 
all  had  been  made  as  festive  as 
possible  with  evergreen  decora- 
tions and  as  many  candles  and 
tapers  as  could  be  mustered  in 
the  wilderness.  "Thus,"  ob- 
serves Gallitzin's  biographer, 
"it  came  to  pass  that  on  a  spot 
where  but  a  year  previously  had 
stood  a  primeval  forest,  a  hand- 
ful of  wanderers  of  various 
countries  and  tongues  found  a 
home  under  the  care  of  an  exiled 
prince;  and  where  formerly  at 
the  solemn  midnight  hour  no 
sounds  had  been  heard  but  the 


86  A  ROYAL  SON 

howling  of  wolves,  now  re- 
sounded the  glad  song  of  the 
heavenly  hosts :  '  Glory  to  God 
in  the  highest,  and  on  earth 
peace  to  men  of  good -will!'" 
The  same  writer  proceeds  to 
draw  a  pretty  picture  of  the 
devoted  part  a  priest  like 
Gallitzin  is  bound  to  play  in 
a  settlement  as  yet  without 
police,  magistrate,  doctor,  or 
lawyer:  "The  love  of  Christ 
urges  him;  he  is  not  satisfied 
with  just  fulfilling  his  priestly 
duties,  such  as  preaching  at 
stated  times,  and  then  treating 
the  hundred  little  things  of  daily 
life  that  affect  humanity  with 
proud  disdain,  as  much  as  to 
say,  'That  is  no  affair  of  mine.' 


AND  MOTHER.  87 

On  the  contrary,  he  enters  into 
all  his  people's  interests,  is  easy 
of  approach  to  all.  He  writes 
their  letters  to  Germany,  Ireland 
or  France;  and  when  he  is  on 
his  missionary  rounds  he  carries 
back  the  answers  from  distant 
postal  stations.  He  is  not  too 
grand  to  bring  the  women  folk 
the  little  necessaries  which  can 
be  procured  only  at  a  great 
distance  and  which  others  might 
easily  forget — some  pepper  or  a 
packet  of  needles,  and  so  forth. 
All  this  begets  appreciation  end- 
ing in  unbounded  trust  and 
affection;  and  as  the  priest  in 
a  new  mission  of  this  kind  is 
generally  the  only  educated 
man,  he  is  soon  all  in  all  to  his 


88  A  ROYAL  SON 

parishioners.  He  has  become  a 
centre  of  unity,  about  which 
the  most  heterogeneous  elements 
gather  in  love  and  obedience; 
and  a  patriarchal  form  of 
government  is  once  more  pos- 
sible." 

It  must  be  admitted  that  in 
his  great  generosity  Gallitzin 
spent  more  money  than  was 
wise  upon  his  beloved  settle- 
ment; yet  he  had  good  reasons 
for  thinking  himself  wealthy.  So 
long  as  his  mother  was  able  she 
kept  him  liberally  supplied  with 
money  for  all  his  good  works, 
even  at  the  cost  of  considerable 
self-sacrifice.  At  the  death  of 
his  parents  the  fortune  would 
be    his    sister's,     and    she    had 


AND  MOTHER.  89 

solemnly  promised  that  she 
would  "share  and  share  alike" 
with  her  brother. 

His  father  never  sent  him  any 
money,  but  occasionally  wrote 
to  him.  In  his  last  letter  he 
says,  wistfully:  "We  are  both 
getting  on  in  years;  your 
mother  is,  moreover,  broken  by 
ill  health.  .  .  .  There  is  no  time 
to  lose  if  you  wish  to  see 
us  once  more.  Besides,  your 
presence  here  is  necessary,  in 
spite  of  your  deed  relinquishing 
all  claim  to  my  fortune ;  for  un- 
less the  precise  legal  formalities 
are  observed,  the  inheritance 
may  be  lost  to  Mimi  likewise, 
and  go  to  the  next  of  kin." 

But    it    was    impossible     for 


90  A  ROYAL  SON 

Gallitzin  to  leave.  Not  only 
was  he  absolutely  essential  to 
the  life  and  social  well-being 
of  his  model  little  colony,  but 
it  would  have  meant  much 
spiritual  loss  as  well;  and  the 
brave  priest  decided  to  remain 
at  his  post.  Not  without  sac- 
rifice, however, — heroic  sacrifice. 
In  1803  he  wrote  to  his  mother 
that  he  had  been  hoping  to  find 
a  substitute  so  as  to  be  able 
to  go  to  Europe ;  he  had  always 
feared  this  might  be  impossible, 
but  of  late  years  his  work  had 
increased  to  such  a  degree  that 
he  began  to  doubt  whether  he 
should  ever  see  Miinster  and  his 
dear  mother  again. 
"I  dare  not,"  he  writes,  "trust 


AND  MOTHER.  91 

myself  to  think  about  it;  for 
when  I  do  my  heart  trembles, 
and  I  feel  as  if  I  positively  must 
see  you  once  more.  .  .  .  But  God 
knows  what  is  best  under  the 
circumstances  and  most  con- 
ducive to  His  honor.  .  .  .  The 
number  of  priests  here  seems  to 
decrease,  while  the  number  of 
Catholics  goes  on  increasing.  I 
know  you  are  perfectly  resigned 
to  the  will  of  God  under  all 
circumstances  —  indeed  far  more 
so  than  I  am,— and  that  your 
one  real  desire  is  to  meet  me  safe 
in  the  bosom  of  our  Heavenly 
Father  when  the  gates  of  death 
are  passed." 

In    March,     1803,     Gallitzin's 
father  died,  leaving  no  will.    The 


92  A  ROYAL  SON 

Princess  hoped  against  hope  to 
secure  something  for  Demetrius, 
and  once  more  asked  him  to 
return,  if  it  were  at  all  possible. 
He  thereupon  visited  Bishop 
Carroll,  and  laid  the  whole 
state  of  the  case  simply  before 
him,  ready  to  abide  by  his 
decision.  His  Lordship  came  to 
the  conclusion  he  ought  not  to 
leave ;  and  Gallitzin  returned  to 
his  beloved  flock  once  more, 
never  to  leave  them  again  even 
for  so  short  an  absence. 

That  his  noble  mother  under- 
stood and  approved  of  his 
decision  was  shown  in  a  very 
acceptable  form.  First  arrived 
a  substantial  cheque,  then  a 
large     box     containing     books, 


AND  MOTHER.  93 

rosaries  and  pictures;  another 
with  a  quantity  of  linen  for 
himself  and  his  poor  parish- 
ioners, all  worked  by  herself 
and  her  friends.  Long  years 
after,  an  aged  woman  showed 
Gallitzin's  biographer,  with 
great  pride,  a  dainty  christening 
robe,  and  told  him  it  had  been 
made  by  the  pious  mother  of 
their  own  blessed  Father.  "I 
was  baptized  in  it,  and  every 
one  of  my  children ;  and  I  now 
keep  it  as  a  sacred  relic  for 
my  grandchildren." 

Another  still  more  acceptable 
present  did  the  Princess  send; 
this  was  a  complete  set  of 
church  vestments  made  by  her- 
self,    her     daughter,    and     the 


94  .4   ROYAL  SON 

Countess  Stolberg.  Gallitzin 
was  particularly  fond  of  the 
alb,  which  was  a  masterpiece 
of  needlecraft.  He  wore  it  on 
all  great  feasts;  and,  according 
to  his  wish,  he  also  wore  it 
when  laid  in  his  grave. 

Gallitzin,  as  he  quietly  travelled 
back  to  his  little  colony  after  his 
interview  with  the  Bishop,  never 
dreamed  what  bitter  crosses 
were  in  store  for  him.  He  knew 
he  had  turned  his  back  upon 
all  that  makes  life  pleasant  — 
upon  love  and  sympathy  and 
congenial  friends;  he  had  em- 
braced a  life  of  hardship;  he 
was  to  spend  himself  and  to  be 
spent  among  rough,  uneducated 
strangers,  unable  to  appreciate 


AND  MOTHER.  95 

or  to  understand  him.  But 
beyond  all  this,  persecutions, 
opposition,  ingratitude  and 
calumny  were  to  tame  his 
ardent  spirit  and  bring  it  cap- 
tive to  the  Cross  of  Christ. 
Indeed,  so  relentless  was  the 
storm,  so  fierce  the  persecution, 
often  from  those  who  owed 
him  everything  and  who  ended 
by  loving  him  enthusiastically, 
that  we  can  only  account  for 
it  by  saying  that  the  devil,  see- 
ing the  good  that  was  being 
done,  raged  against  its  author 
with  full  fury  in  the  expectation 
of  driving  him  to  despair. 


96  A  ROYAL  SON 


IV. — Last  Days. 

As  Gallitzin's  settlement  in- 
creased and  prospered  and  he 
had  plenty  of  land,  he  deter- 
mined to  found  a  little  town, 
and  for  that  purpose  encouraged 
workmen  and  tradespeople  to 
come  to  him;  and  thus  was 
founded  the  little  town  of 
Loretto. 

No  sooner,  however,  had  the 
zealous  missionary  founded  his 
town  than  a  speculator  arose 
ready  to  "undercut"  him  in 
every  way.  He  also  started 
his  opposition  town,  which,  as 
he  was  an  Irishman,   he  called 


AND  MOTHER.  97 

Minister.  Unfortunately,  a  Ger- 
man tailor,  after  deciding  to 
settle  at  Minister,  changed  his 
mind  and  came  to  Loretto. 
This  was  taken  in  very  bad 
part  by  the  Munster  worthies. 
Their  ringleader  was  only  a 
nominal  Catholic ;  he  gave  such 
bad  example  that  Gallitzin,  as 
his  pastor,  could  not  leave  him 
unreproved.  The  wretched  man 
was  now  able  to  make  himself 
out  a  martyr.  He  "talked  big" 
of  priests  who  loved  power 
and  gold,  and  were  ever  ready 
to  tread  a  poor  but  honest 
enterpriser  underfoot.  The  laxer 
members  of  the  community,  who 
had  chafed  against  Gallitzin's 
high    moral    code,    soon    joined 


98  A  ROYAL  SON 

the  malcontent  party;  to  this 
were  also  added  certain  am- 
bitious people  who  had  hoped 
to  be  church -wardens,  trustees, 
and  so  forth,  and  who  resented 
Gallitzin's  keeping  the  reins  of 
government  in  his  own  strong 
hands. 

At  this  most  inopportune 
moment  there  appeared  on  the 
scene  a  priest  of  whose  past 
Gallitzin  knew  far  too  much 
to  be  able  to  entrust  him  with 
any  ecclesiastical  duties.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  Prince's  high 
sense  of  honor  and  charity 
made  him  unwilling  to  expose 
the  poor  man's  history.  His 
only  return  for  Gallitzin's 
clemency    was    to    stir    up    the 


AND  MOTHER.  99 

people,  and  represent  himself 
as  persecuted  on  account  of 
the  parish  priest's  jealousy  and 
avarice. 

And  as  if  all  this  were  not 
enough,  a  Westphalian  turned 
up  who  had  known  Gallitzin 
in  Minister.  He  was  a  lazy 
ne'er-do-well,  who  thought  it 
would  be  very  fine  to  live  at 
a  rich  prince's  expense.  After 
treating  him  with  great  kind- 
ness and  giving  him  the  chance 
to  work,  Gallitzin,  finding  him 
incorrigible,  was  finally  obliged 
to  send  him  away.  Then  the 
man  spread  the  most  odious 
calumnies  against  his  benefactor, 
hinting  this,  asserting  that; 
asking    if    it    were    "natural" 


100  A  ROYAL  SON 

that,  if  everything  were  all 
right  and  square,  a  Russian 
Prince  of  large  fortune  should 
be  called  "Herr  Schmet"  and 
bury  himself  in  Loretto.  For 
once  the  wretch  had  surmised 
correctly:  no,  it  was  not 
natural. 

Gallitzin  was  too  high-souled 
to  take  notice  of  this  dastardly 
mud  -  throwing.  As  usual,  the 
pastor  continued  to  go  about 
"doing  good" — calm,  fearless, 
kindly, —  and  that  at  a  time 
when,  at  length,  he  was  in 
danger  of  his  life.  One  day 
he  was  seized  upon  by  a  set 
of  roughs  bent  on  extorting 
from  him  all  kinds  of  con- 
cessions     which      would      have 


AND  MOTHER.  101 

done  away  with  his  influence 
forever.  As  he  remained  firm, 
they  became  so  threatening 
that  he  sought  shelter  in  his 
chapel,  where  he  would  have 
had  to  sustain  a  regular  siege 
but  for  the  timely  intervention 
of  a  certain  John  Weakland, 
known  as  the  tallest  and 
strongest  man  within  a  hun- 
dred miles.  Like  most  giants, 
he  was  sparing  of  words,  gentle 
and  peaceable;  but  he  was  a 
great  admirer  of  Gallitzin,  with 
whom  he  had  travelled  from 
Maryland. 

As  soon  as  John  appeared, 
the  roughs  paused  a  little, 
thinking  he  intended  to  beat 
about  right  and  left    with    the 


102  A  ROYAL  SON 

monster  staff  he  held  in  his 
hand ;  but,  far  more  wonder- 
ful, he  made  a  speech.  "In 
my  day,"  he  cried,  "I  have 
fought  with  bears  and  other 
wild  beasts,  but  up  to  this  I 
have  never,  thank  God,  injured 
any  human  being.  Now  things 
may  be  quite  changed,  if  you 
don't  go  home  at  once  and 
behave  yourselves.  For  who- 
ever makes  a  row  near  God's 
house  or  dares  to  lay  a  finger 
on  the  Lord's  anointed,  let  him 
look  to  it" — and  he  brandished 
his  staff, — "for  so  true  as  I'm 
a  living  man  I'll  dash  his  brains 
out!"  The  situation  had  re- 
quired a  master  -  hand.  The 
better  -  disposed      now      rallied 


AND  MOTHER.  103 

round  honest  John,  and  but 
for  Gallitzin's  timely  interfer- 
ence the  affair  might  have 
ended  in  bloodshed. 

Bishop  Carroll  wrote  private 
letters  of  comfort  to  his  sorely- 
tried  missionary.  He  also  wrote 
a  public  notice,  dated  Nov.  30, 
1804,  which  was  nailed  to  the 
church  door.    It  ran  as  follows : 

"I  think  it  necessary,  dear 
children  in  Christ,  to  inform 
you,  the  faithful  of  Reverend 
Mr.  Schmet's  community,  that 
I  am  cognizant  of  the  differences 
that  have  arisen  between  him 
and  some  of  his  parishioners. 
All  the  information  I  have  ob- 
tained has  convinced  me  that 
Mr.  Schmet,  in  all  that  has  taken 


104  A  ROYAL  SON 

place,  was  never  actuated  by 
any  other  motives  than  those 
of  charity  and  zeal  for  the  good 
of  those  entrusted  to  his  care. 
Moreover,  I  know  that  he  is 
quite  open  to  reconciliation: 
that  he  will  be  ready  to  treat 
all  members  of  his  community 
with  fatherly  affection  ;  and  that 
it  is  their  simple  duty  to  give 
proofs  of  their  confidence  and 
readiness  to  profit  by  his  pas- 
toral care.  Indeed  they  ought 
to  be  forever  grateful  to  him 
for  enduring  so  many  hardships 
for  their  sakes.  Moved  by  the 
love  of  God  and  of  their  souls, 
he  has  generously  renounced 
great  earthly  advantages. 
"*i*]-,  Bishop  of  Baltimore." 


AND  MOTHER.  105 

Peace  and  order  were  now 
once  more  restored.  Many  of 
the  offenders,  after  begging 
Gallitzin's  pardon,  became  his 
stanchest  friends.  It  was  no- 
ticed that  a  person  who  refused 
to  do  this  died  not  long  after- 
ward a  horrible  death ;  whereas 
the  good  John  Weakland  died 
only  fifteen  years  after  Gallitzin, 
at  a  very  great  age,  leaving  a 
posterity  of  over  a  hundred 
souls.  He  was  followed  to  the 
grave  by  a  great-granddaugh- 
ter carrying:  her  child  in  her 
arms. 

But  now  another  ordeal  began 
for  Gallitzin,  —  one  that  was  to 
continue  to  harass  him  for 
thirty    long    years.      After    his 


106  A  ROYAL  SON 

father's  death  his  mother  found 
herself  involved  in  a  tedious  and 
expensive  lawsuit,  to  obtain  her 
just  rights.  She  won  the  law- 
suit but  died  before  reaping  any 
benefit  therefrom;  her  daughter 
Mimi  now  came  in  for  the  fort- 
une. During  the  last  ten  years 
of  her  life,  despite  all  her  efforts, 
Amalie  had  not  been  able  to 
help  her  son  as  much  as  for- 
merly. But  he,  counting  on  her 
ever -ready  purse,  and  upon  his 
sister's  repeated  promises  as 
to  the  future,  had  not  only 
conceived  great  plans,  but  had 
unfortunately  begun  to  carry 
them  out.  And  as  the  weary 
months  went  by  and  brought 
no  remittances  from  Europe,  his 


AND  MOTHER.  107 

poverty  increased  till  at  times 
he  had  barely  enough  to  keep 
body  and  soul  together.  To  one 
of  Gallitzin's  temperament  that, 
however,  was  not  the  sting  of 
the  trial:  the  real  sting  was  to 
see  his  noble  daydreams  —  that 
had  been  so  practical,  so  excel- 
lent as  well  as  noble — doomed 
to  disappointment,  and  himself 
reduced  to  the  humiliating  posi- 
tion of  a  seeming  foolish  enthu- 
siast who  had  begun  to  build 
ere  counting  the  cost. 

In  1806  Princess  Amalie  Gal- 
litzin  died.  Bishop  Carroll, 
Mimi  Gallitzin,  and  Count  Stol- 
berg  all  sent  letters  to  Demetrius 
to  tell  him  the  sad  tidings. 
Count  Stolberg  wrote  thus: 


108  A  ROYAL  SON 

"Blessed  and  praised  be  Jesus 
Christ !  She  is  doing  this,  dearest 
Mitri!  .  .  .  She  is  blessing  and 
praising  Him  better  far  than 
we  can  ever  do.  But  yet  we, 
too,  must,  to  the  best  of  our 
powers,  praise  Him  —  and  not 
in  a  general  way,  for  that  is 
a  matter  of  course,  and  some- 
thing we  ought  to  do  with 
our  every  breath,  but  in  a 
special  manner,  —  for  having 
so  unspeakably  blessed  your 
saintly  mother.  She  was  like 
Him  in  suffering,  to  be  the  more 
like  Him  in  glory.  I  need  not 
tell  you  .  .  .  what  an  angel  your 
mother  was;  but  in  my  deep 
sorrow  I  feel  I  must  tell  you 
that    ever    since  I  have  known 


AND  MOTHER.  109 

her  I  could  never  think  of  the 
bond  which  God,  in  His  mercy 
toward  me,  had  created  between 
her  soul  and  mine,  without  being 
filled    with    a    sense    of    intense 
reverence,    heartfelt     love,     and 
deep  happiness.    My  soul  is  very 
sorrowful,    and    yet    my    spirit 
rejoices  at  the  same  time  that 
she     has     reached     the     goal; 
and  I  know  that  she  continues 
to    help    me    by    her    powerful 
intercession.      Rejoice,      dearest 
Mitri,  in  being  the  beloved  son 
of  a  saint;   rejoice  to  have  been 
the  cause  of  so  much  consolation 
to  her;   rejoice  to  know  that  she 
is    still    blessing    you    with    the 
unspeakable  love  of  a  mother!  " 
Amalie    Gallitzin    was    buried 


110  A  ROYAL  SON 

as  she  had  wished  it, — not  with 
any  pride  or  ostentation,  in 
some  grand  vault,  but  in  the 
little  churchyard  of  Angelmodde, 
among  the  poor  she  had 
loved  so  well.  A  large  crucifix 
throws  its  hallowed  shade  upon 
her  humble  grave,  and  on  the 
base  of  it  are  inscribed  these 
words : 

"'I  count  all  things  to  be  but 
loss  for  the  excellent  knowledge 
of  Jesus  Christ  my  Lord,  for 
whom  I  have  suffered  the  loss 
of  all  things,  and  count  them 
but  as  dung,  that  I  may  gain 
Christ.'  (  Phil.,  iii,  8. )  Thus 
felt  and  lived  the  mother  of  the 
poor  and  the  oppressed,  Princess 
Amalie  Gallitzin,   Countess  von 


AND  MOTHER.  Ill 

Schmettau,  whose  mortal  re- 
mains rest  at  the  foot  of  this 
cross,  awaiting  a  glorious 
resurrection.  She  died  the  27th 
of  April,  1806,  in  the  fifty- 
eighth  year  of  her  age.  Pray 
for   her." 

Bishop  Carroll,  writing  to 
Gallitzin,  said:  "It  is  not  only 
because  she  was  your  mother 
that  she  was  dear  to  me,  and 
that  I  get  others  to  pray  for 
her,  but  because  she  sought 
ever  to  promote  the  welfare  of 
religion  with  zeal  and  earnest- 
ness in  this  diocese.  I  can  only 
offer  you  my  deepest  sympathy 
on  being  deprived  of  a  mother 
who  was  so  much  to  be  revered, 
and  who  in  the  hands  of  God 


112  A  ROYAL  SON 

was  the  means  of  procuring  you 
so  many  precious  graces." 

A  kindly  French  proverb  says : 
"To  know  all  would  be  to 
forgive  all."  We  must  not, 
therefore,  judge  too  harshly  of 
the  conduct  of  Gallitzin's  sister. 
She  found  it  far  more  difficult 
to  get  her  rents  paid,  owing  to 
the  distracted  state  of  Europe 
at  that  time,  than  her  brother 
could  well  imagine.  When  he 
heard  that  the  Russian  govern- 
ment had  recognized  all  her 
claims,  he  naturally  expected  to 
receive  the  half  of  the  large 
fortune  that  had  always  been 
promised  him.  Instead  of  this 
small  doles  of  money  occasion- 
ally   reached     him     with     long 


AND  MOTHER.  113 

excuses;  she  may,  indeed,  have 
been  an  inexperienced  business 
woman.  But  after  a  while,  at 
the  age  of  forty,  she  married, 
and  then  she  seems  to  have  felt 
it  quite  out  of  her  power  to 
help  her  brother  at  all. 

Dear  old  Overberg  finally  came 
to  the  rescue.  Amalie  had  left 
him  a  valuable  collection  of 
rare  gems  to  be  sold  if  necessary 
in  aid  of  his  many  charities. 
With  characteristic  disinterested- 
ness he  resolved  to  send  all 
the  money  thus  obtained  to 
Gallitzin,  and  exerted  himself 
to  find  a  suitable  purchaser. 
The  King  of  Holland  bought 
the  collection;  and,  remembering 
his    friendly    relations  with  the 


114  A  ROYAL  SON 

Gallitzins  in  other  days,  paid 
a  truly  regal  sum.  It  is  one 
of  the  pathetic  sides  of  life 
that  as  age  advances,  our  hopes 
and  wishes  grow  smaller  and 
smaller.  The  ardent  missionary, 
who  in  his  generous  youth  had 
dreamed  such  great  and  noble 
things  that  were  to  be  achieved 
with  his  large  fortune,  ended 
in  only  longing  very  wistfully 
that  he  might  die  free  of  debt; 
for  he  felt  debt  as  a  kind  of 
stain  upon  his  priestly  character. 
And  this  wish  was  granted  him. 
By  the  time  Father  Lemke, 
Gallitzin's  devoted  helper  and 
biographer,  arrived  at  Loretto 
the  grand  old  missionary  was 
showing  a  few  signs  of  failing 


AND  MOTHER.  115 

health ;  but  he  was  still  upright, 
active,  energetic  as  ever,  in  spite 
of  his  thinness  which  amounted 
almost  to  emaciation.  No  longer 
able  to  travel  on  horseback 
owing  to  an  injury  to  his  leg, 
he  went  about  in  a  strange 
old-fashioned  sledge,  in  which 
were  packed  all  the  requisites 
for  saying  Mass  at  the  stations 
he  visited.  His  clothes  were  of 
the  poorest  and  almost  thread- 
bare. Father  Lemke  at  once 
felt  he  had  to  deal  with  a  saint, 
and  valued  the  privilege  accord- 
ingly. But,  it  was  hard  and  at 
times  futile  work  to  induce  the 
old  Father  to  rest  and  to  take 
things  a  little  easier.  He  was 
wont  to  say  that  as    in    these 


116  A  ROYAL  SON 

days  there  was  little  oppor- 
tunity for  a  missionary  to 
glorify  God  by  a  bloody  martyr- 
dom, he  was  at  least  allowed 
to  wish  that  he  might  drop 
down  dead  in  the  harness  like  a 
worn-out  old  cart-horse. 

To  his  countless  other  labors 
Gallitzin  added  that  of  writing. 
He  wrote  some  excellent  though 
simple  controversial  treatises, 
always  in  that  remarkably  pure 
English  he  had  so  easily  mas- 
tered. 

Of  course  Father  Lemke 
thought  that  Gallitzin  would 
keep  him  at  his  side  to  relieve 
him  from  the  strain  of  excessive 
work.  But,  to  his  dismay,  a 
few  days  after  his  arrival  Gal- 


AND  MOTHER.  117 

litzin  sent  him  a  considerable 
distance,  to  a  small  station 
badlv  in  need  of  the  ministra- 
tions  of  a  priest;  giving  him 
permission,  however,  to  return 
to  Loretto  once  a  month  to 
help  him  over  the  Saturday 
and  Sunday. 

The  winter  of  1839  and  1840 
was  a  particularly  cold  and 
trying  one,  and  Father  Lemke 
was  obliged  to  travel  great 
distances  during  Lent,  that  not 
one  of  the  scattered  flock  might 
be  without  the  means  of  ap- 
proaching the  sacraments.  As 
ill -fortune  would  have  it,  he 
met  with  a  serious  accident, 
which  made  it  at  last  impossible 
for  him  to  put  his  foot  to  the 


118  .4  ROYAL  SON 

ground.  It  was  just  at  this 
most  inopportune  moment  that 
news  reached  him  from  Loretto 
that  Gallitzin  had  fallen  ill; 
that  he  had  just  managed  to 
say  Mass  on  Easter  Sunday; 
but  had  been  unable  to  preach, 
and  had  been  obliged  at  length 
to  take  to  his  bed. 

Father  Lemke  immediately 
sent  a  messenger  to  Loretto, 
who  came  back  with  the  news 
that  he  had  seen  the  dear  old 
man;  that  he  looked  very  ill, 
but  that  he  had  said  Father 
Lemke  was  not  to  dream  of 
coming,  but  was  to  take  good 
care  of  himself;  that  if  there 
should  be  any  danger  he  would 
be  sure  to  send  for  him.    But  a 


AND  MOTHER.  119 

friend  had  whispered  that  the 
saintly  Father  was  really  very 
ill,  and  that  it  would  be  well 
if  his  coadjutor  lost  no  time 
in  corning".  Not  long  after  Gal- 
litzin's  old  sledge  arrived,  the 
driver  bringing  a  petition  from 
the  doctor  (who  loved  the  old 
priest  as  his  father )  to  come  at 
once,  as  there  was  but  little 
hope.  In  spite  of  his  own 
sorry  plight,  Father  Lemke  im- 
mediately set  out  upon  the 
journey;  and  on  arriving  found 
that  the  doctor  was  only  wait- 
ing for  his  coming  before  per- 
forming a  necessary  operation. 
Gallitzin  required  but  little 
preparation.  He  was  perfectly 
resigned  to  the    will  of   God, — 


120  A  ROYAL  SON 

ready  for  anything.  "I  have 
made  my  will,"  he  said.  "I 
do  hope  that  I  can  depart  in 
peace  so  far  as  that  is  concerned, 
and  that  everyone  will  receive 
his  due,  and  that  there  will  even 
be  a  trifle  over.  Now  my  only 
desire  is  to  receive  the  last 
Sacraments,  and  then  you  may 
do  with  me  whatever  you 
like." 

After  midnight  Father  Lemke 
said  Mass  for  him  in  his 
room,  during  which  he  received 
Holy  Communion  with  most 
intense  devotion.  The  operation 
brought  some  temporary  relief; 
but  the  whole  system  was  so 
thoroughly  worn  out  his  com- 
munity   realized    they    were    to 


AND  MOTHER.  121 

lose  their  dearly  beloved  Father 
and  friend. 

The  news  spread  like  light- 
ning that  he  was  dying;  and 
from  all  the  neighborhood  there 
poured  into  Loretto  a  very 
stream  of  pilgrims,  old  and 
young,  all  anxious  to  see  him 
once  more  and  to  receive  his 
blessing.  So  great  did  the  num- 
bers become  that  it  was  fou'id 
necessary  to  prevent  their  en- 
trance into  the  sick-room.  But 
this  had  to  be  done  with  the 
utmost  caution;  for  the  dying 
man  himself  seemed  pleased  to 
see  them  all,  and  had  a  sweet 
smile  and  a  kindly  word  for 
every  comer. 

But    at    length    a    man    came 


122  A  ROYAL  SON 

for  whom  Gallitzin  had  no  smile. 
He    had    repaid    all    the   good 
priest's  kindness    with    extreme 
ingratitude,     and    had    of    late 
years  given    way    to    intemper- 
ance    and     other     evil     habits. 
Him    the    dying    priest    looked 
at    sternly,    while   he    lifted    up 
a  warning   finger.      This    silent 
sermon  had  a  wonderful  effect: 
the  prodigal  fell  upon  his  knees, 
and,  weeping  bitterly,  confessed 
his  wickedness  and  promised  to 
amend.     He    kept   his    promise. 
And  Gallitzin,   on  his    side,   did 
not    forget    him;     for    on     the 
day  of  his  death,  after  having 
a  long  time  lain  still    and    un- 
conscious,    he     whispered     this 
man's  name.    It  seemed  to  pain 


AND  MOTHER  123 

him  that  he  had  not  left  him 
anything,  as  he  had  to  his 
other  former  servants.  Father 
Lemke  caught  these  words: 
"Poor  scamp  —  if  it  could  still 
be  done  —  not  forget  him." 
Father  Lemke,  of  course,  re- 
spected the  dying  wish. 

Two  days  before  his  death 
Gallitzin  had  the  consolation 
of  a  visit  from  another  priest, 
an  old  friend  of  his  —  Father 
Heyden,  of  Bedford.  On  the 
evening  of  the  6th  of  May  the 
end  had  come.  Father  Heyden 
said  the  Prayers  for  the  Dying, 
while  Father  Lemke  held  a 
lighted  candle  in  Gallitzin's 
hand.  As  the  prayers  ended 
Father    Lemke    felt     that     the 


124  A  ROYAL  SON 

pulse  had  stopped  and  another 
beautiful  soul  had  flown  to  the 
Feet  of  its  Redeemer.  A  by- 
stander, gazing  at  the  dead 
priest,  exclaimed:  "Does  he 
not  look  like  a  grand  old  con- 
queror who  had  just  won  his 
victory?  " 

The  testimony  of  one  of  his 
fellow  priests  is  too  beautiful 
to  be  omitted.  Writing  three 
years  before  Gallitzin's  death, 
he  said:  "I  do  not  see  much  of 
the  venerable  Father,  for  I  live 
twelve  miles  distant.  Besides 
he  has  lived,  so  to  speak,  alone, 
for  forty -two  years,  and  he  is 
reserved  and  self-contained.  But 
he  is  the  noblest,  purest,  most 
Christian  man  I  ever  met.     He 


AND  MOTHER.  125 

requires  to  be  well  known.  .  .  . 
Now  that  I  live  without  any- 
consolation,  and  have,  thank 
God,  gained  sufficient  mastery 
over  self  no  longer  to  wish  for 
any  consolation  that  this  world 
could  give  me,  I  believe  that  He 
will  come  to  comfort  me  who 
alone  can  give  comfort  worthy 
of  the  name.  We  have  abundant 
proof  of  this  here.  For  have  I 
not  Gallitzin  before  me?  He 
gave  up  everything — everything ; 
and,  best  of  all,  he  gave  himself. 
Therefore  he  now  goes  about 
enshrouded  in  an  abiding  peace, 
and  an  angel  looks  out  of  his 
calm  eyes ;  and  I  feel  that  at 
any  moment  he  could  lay  him- 
self down    smiling  to  sleep  his 


126  A  ROYAL  SON 

last  sleep  like  a  weary  child. 
Can  anything  higher  or  better 
be  striven  for  or  attained?" 

Gallitzin's  funeral  told  some- 
thing of  the  universal  venera- 
tion in  which  he  was  held.  In 
spite  of  bad  weather,  mourners 
came  a  distance  of  forty  and 
fifty  miles  to  pay  him  the  last 
tribute  of  love  and  gratitude. 
It  would  have  taken  but  a 
few  minutes  to  convey  the 
body  from  the  presbytery  to 
its  resting-place ;  but  his  friends 
had  a  pretty  thought.  They 
carried  their  dear  Father 
through  the  gardens  and  fields 
and  meadows,  and  lastly 
through  the  little  town  —  all 
of  which  had  been  his  creation, 


AND  MOTHER.  127 

his  life's  work, —  that  he  might 
once  more  bless  it  all  and 
dedicate  it  anew  to  Him  to 
follow  whom  he  had,  in  the 
most  literal  sense  of  the  word, 
"left  all  things." 


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